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Title: Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman : What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn by Gail Evans ISBN: 0-7679-0463-X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (62 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman
Comment: Could be subtitled; How Not To Shoot Yourself in the Foot. I'd like to join in with the positive reviews of this book. I'm a business school student and I read this book on the recommendation of a visiting female executive. I've since lent it out to my classmates and have watched it be passes around from woman to woman. We love it! Evans offers simple, easy to relate to examples of behavior women adopt in the workplace that can be "career limiting." She openly challenges the reader to see which of her observations fit and which don't to each woman's unique situation. A well balanced, honest set of suggestions and observations that will benefit any woman seeking to advance in her career.

Rating: 4
Summary: Great overall picture of women in the corporate culture
Comment: Evans who has been a CEO for CNN expresses herself in easy to read, fun examples. She follows the Pat Heim/Betty Harragan concept of the corporate life as a playing field and builds on this idea. She describes four basic areas for women to understand in the corporate world:

You are Who You Say You Are,
One Prize Doesn't Fit All
Work Isn't a sorority
You're Always a Mother, Daughter, Wife, or Mistress

Her discussions are full of energy and interesting ways of looking at the world of business.

The book has two major disadvantages:

First, there is no index. I would love to refer to her writing more than I do, but can't due to lack of a simple, basic index.

Second, she fails to give credit to all who went before her. Obviously she has been influenced by Betty Harragan, Pat Heim, Deborah Tannen, but she does not mention their books nor give credit to their impact on her thinking.

Rating: 4
Summary: Raters with "how this relates to MY life" as the criteria:
Comment: In contrary to what a lot of negative response I've read on here, that had denoted the book's values due to the fact that it carries sexist qualities, shows no sympathy to a woman's choice of lifestyle, and that the book is not written for a generalized community in a last-generation point of view: This book is not meant to be a pat on your back to make you feel better about your womanhood. If you want that, there are soap opera magazines out there teaching you how to raise your children. There are also other great books out there that are targetted towards the younger generation.

Gail Evan did not once say "this book is targetted for everyone". She's talking to the women who wants to succeed in the business sense, in a man's style. It represents her insights from her long travel, and it is her belief from experience that these are the issues that held women back from achieving the status they want. This book is for the women out there who is willing to make a change in life so to reach to a higher level in the game. It's not for sulking women who wants to juggle the 12098723 priorities of family and friends before business. (In that case, the book for you is "the 7 habits of highly effective people) Women who decides to rate this book should first put themselves in a mindset that this is not Oprah. As the title reinforces Gail Evan's standpoint: PLAY LIKE A MAN. Most men who play in the field don't COMPLAIN that they want to stay home 8 hours a day for their children, and they don't relate themselves to their bar buddies' private life in every conversation.

The book simply gives you the unspoken jargons men made up and Gail's interpretation of the terms. It doesn't tell you "THIS, is the lifestyle that'll be your ULTIMATE LIFE-LOVING experience."

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